All posts tagged: raising kids

Moms–how are you faring? Tired of being a people-pleaser? Looking to strip off that mask? Katherine Wintsch will show you how in her book, SLAY LIKE A MOTHER

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By Leslie Lindsay  Entertaining, honest, hopeful self-help book for busy mothers, reads like a chat with your best girlfriend. ~WEEKEND READING|ALWAYS WITH A BOOK~ NOW IN PAPERBACK! GET IT, GIFT IT…FOR MOTHER’S DAY. This book came across my desk at the very right moment. I had been feeling like a hamster in a wheel going nowhere fast for some time. I work hard, but why do I feel so burned out? I wanted a break from it all. And then–the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Did I want to slay the virus? You bet. Could I? Not really. So I holed up and read. SLAY LIKE A MOTHER (Sourcebooks trade paperback, March 2020) by motivational speaker and mom Katherine Wintsch was a bit of a wake-up call, but it also affirmed that I am doing a lot of things ‘right.’ Here she talks about the idea that many of us are people-pleasers. We almost *have* to be with work demands, household stuff, raising children, partner/spouse connectivity. She talks about ‘why’ we are people-pleasers (and not all of us are, but we’re …

WeekEND Reading: Julie Lythcott-Haims on her new book, ‘REAL AMERICAN’

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By Leslie Lindsay ‘Where are you from? No, where are you from, from?’ Julie Lythcott-Haims tackles race, self-love, how poetry helped unleash her voice, the unique structure of REAL AMERICAN–how the formatting was intentional, and so much more Searingly honest, raw memoir about what it’s like to be biracial in 1970s-today’s America. I tore through Lythcott-Haims’s memoir, REAL AMERICAN; this is such an important read, one everyone ought to take the time to read and reflect upon. In fact, after I finished, a barrage of emotions hit me and also, I began cataloging all my interactions with those of a race other than my own. In first grade, a gangly Black* girl with a head full colorful clips that rattled and clanged as she peered at me through the cracks in the bathroom stall caused me alarm. I told my mother, who was convinced the ‘bussing program’ was a problem. She wanted to have words with my teacher, but I assured her it wasn’t a problem. Also, in first grade, I was made math partners with …

The Teacher is Talking: Busy parents, busy kids…what they really want

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By Leslie Lindsay You got kids, you’re busy.  Hands down.  Kids +  parents = busy, there is no getting around that. Just this morning, I was chatting with a mom at Pre-K drop-off, “It’s so hard being a mom these days,” we mused.  “Not only do we have all of the day-to-day things to deal with, but we also have our work-from-home jobs, too.”  (She does some work through her father’s company “on the side,” and I write).  It seems there is so little time in the hours that our kids are away at school (4 hours for the Pre-K program and 6+ for grade-schoolers).  Really, how much “work” can you accomplish in that amount of time? And what about those household chores that need to get done and are oh-so-much easier to do when the kids aren’t around?  And then this mom says, “And sometimes, I just need a minute to breathe!!”  Yes, we all need downtime…and sleeping shouldn’t count! Not only do we need to do the household chores, our “other” work, but we …